Air Alert 3 and Air Alert 4: Are they still relevant today?
The Air Alert vertical jump programs are arguably the most famous and recognized jump improvement workouts on the planet. It is not a stretch to say that the Air Alert series is what started the craze that is vertical jump training today. Many great program followed Air Alert's example in a new found trend, including the Vertical Jump Developmental Bible, the Jump Manual, Vertfreak101, and many more. As far as vertical jump training and Air Alert's relevance goes in the modern world of vertical jump training, we believe that it is out of date and that there are many better programs out there for athletes. A few common complaints about the Air Alert series are over training, lack of weight training, extremely high repetitions, hardly any customization, and more than likely overstated guarantees and promises.
Modern programs have gone from where Air Alert finished with the versions Air Alert 3 and Air Alert 4, and have taken vertical jump training to new and exciting heights. New data on the importance of proper rest and not over training, developing proper strength foundations for athletes, and other factors have revolutionized in vertical jump program industry. Also many programs these days, including Vertical Mastery and Vertfreak101, offer extremely customizable options that allow athletes to work their way into a unique program that fits their personal needs more properly than the cookie-cutter vertical jump programs of old. There was also a bad trend developing among many of the most famous programs for training vertical jump of overstating gains and making absurd promises to users of the program. Programs such as Air Alert III and Air Alert IV, as well as other vertical jump program like the Vertical Project by Luke Lowery fell into this trap, which inevitably anger many customers who did not achieve the gains they were promised. Recent vertical jump enhancement programs are avoiding this, because they have learned from the mistakes of those before them.
Today there are many great programs out there that have surpassed what the Air Alert series started. We recommend checking out programs such as the Vertical Jump Developmental Bible, Vertical Mastery, Vertfreak101, and the Jump Manual to name a few. If you want to read a little more about these programs, click the links on the side of the page or the links in this article.
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